Definition of "modus vivendi" []

• A manner of living; a way of life. (noun)
• A temporary agreement between contending parties pending a final settlement. (noun)

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• "Thus the biographer of Cardinal Manning revealed the fact that the late Archbishop of Westminster, who began by wishing the Temporal Power to be erected into an article of faith, ended by ardently desiring some kind of tacitly accepted modus vivendi with the Italian kingdom, such as that which Cavour proposed."
• "This is true not only in cases of evident marital failure but also in marriages characterized by a modus vivendi which is bearable or at least borne."
• "My employer's company had achieved a very pleasant modus vivendi on Landoor, its most recent station."